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Eirini Zormpa
Doctoral researcher in psychological and language sciences with strong quantitative analysis skills and demonstrable experience running and managing research projects. Driven and reliable with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Education
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
PhD in Social Sciences
Nijmegen, NL
2016–2020
- Planned and managed own PhD project and co-supervised intern project.
- Designed and ran multi-phase, in-lab and online experiments.
- Analysed complex datasets using (logistic) mixed effects models in R.
University of Reading
MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)
Reading, UK
2014–2015
- Completed two independent and one collaborative research project on bilingualism.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
BA in English Language and Literature (1st Class grade)
Thessaloniki, GR
2009–2013
- Undertook Erasmus exchange at Duisburg-Essen University.
- Conducted research project on the narratives of bilingual children.
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Reading University
Reading, UK
2016
- Tested participants using EEG for a study on prospective memory.
- Transcribed narratives of Greek-English bilingual children.
Research Assistant
Reading University
Reading, UK
2015
- Tested participants using behavioural and eye-tracking methods for a study on ambiguity resolution.
- Pre-processed data and performed preliminary data analysis using Excel.
Peer-reviewed Publications
Slow naming of pictures facilitates memory for their names
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26. doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01620-x
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
The production effect and the generation effect improve memory in picture naming
Memory 27. doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1510966
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2019
Eirini Zormpa, Laurel E. Brehm, Renske S. Hoedemaker, & Antje S. Meyer
Awards & Honours
- Donders Institute
- Donders Posters Theme 1 winner (2017)
- University of Reading
- Achieving Excellence Bursary Award (2014)
Supervision
- Wenwen Jin
- Intern at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Reviewer
- Memory & Cognition
- Journal of Open Source Software
- Frontiers in Psychology
Blog Posts
- Why mycode.R_final.v2_usethisone is not helping your workflow. Software Sustainability Institute, Speed blog written during the Collaborations Workshop 2020.
Volunteering
- Kletskoppen Child Language Festival (2018)
- Drongo Language Festival (2017)
- Erasmus Student Network (ESN) - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012-2014)
Selected Posters and Presentations
Communicative intentions influence memory for conversations
Poster presented at the 26th AMLaP conference (online).
Potsdam, DE
Sep 2020
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
Naming pictures slowly facilitates memory for their names
Poster presented at the 21st ESCoP meeting.
Tenerife, ES
Sep 2019
Eirini Zormpa, Antje S. Meyer, & Laurel E. Brehm
Selected Event Organising Experience
Open Science Community Nijmegen
Co-founder and event organiser of community advocating for open science in Nijmegen. Content creator for the website and newsletter.
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2018–2020
R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter
Co-founder and event organiser of local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community. I was involved in organising and advertising our workshops on, e.g., data visualisation and literate programming.
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2018–2020
Pint of Science NL
Organiser for 3-day science communication event bringing a range of scientific topics like astrophysics and neuroscience into Nijmegen pubs.
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2018–2020
Open Access Ambassador Conference
Organiser for 2-day international conference in Berlin, bringing together stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.
N/A
Dec 2019
Selected Teaching Experience
Reproducible analyses in R
Workshop presented at MPI Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, NL
Jun 2020
Developed a workshop for psycholinguists showing how to use R projects, GitHub, and Binder for reproducible analytical environments.
Key Practices for the Language Scientist
IMPRS Language Sciences
Nijmegen, NL
2020
Co-instructor with Julia Egger on a 6-week course teaching how to conduct transparent, robust, and GDPR-compliant research.